My question was which draft version was meant by this "before," how you thought to keep the ground floor as it is.
The corona lockdowns are over, nobody has to do video conferences with their planner, and misunderstanding ping-pong is absolutely unnecessary. By the superstructure, I meant that house entrances under the garage floor into the heating cupboard behind the garage would be built over by the same. If that is already clear and the planner still "only" draws a completely different world, that will cause trouble at the latest during execution. Nobody needs plans that force those carrying out the work to improvise from the outset (which the subsequent tradesmen do not know about and try to connect to the plan status).
No, don’t whine, but roar (the planner flatly into the ground) until his obstinacy disappears. A perceived no-go wall to your taste is only the tip of the iceberg; I already see a (check forum search) "butcher’s house" coming. I see a series of thoughtlessness here (and I also take my warning with the chicken ladder floor stair seriously). Ladder rungs and stair treads cannot be compared. Once the botch is built, you’ll wish you had chosen the "worse" variant.
Change the planner; that will be the highest-performing investment of your life. Has he even once laid eyes on the counter-proposals made by Katja, for example?
You won’t get anywhere with patches. There must be agreement on the preliminary draft before it is further distilled into the draft.
No, the knee wall is missing 7cm, and you would still have a solid 37cm up to the ridge. But okay, that’s not decisive for an idea at first. I don’t find the draft totally terrible now. You have already mentioned some points yourself. What bothers me most is the main staircase— a 19.5cm rise must be a joke. It’s often difficult to just add a step to a staircase — it should fit from the start. We already discussed the staircase to the peak. Your statement
helps no one. Decide! Is it okay like this? How exactly should the access to the peak look? It was once again not shown. Should there be a door in front of it downstairs, or how should the thermal separation be done? Do you always want to heat the attic completely? That cannot be right, can it? Without a clear declaration, you won’t get a meaningful result.
The rooms upstairs are already pretty clearly divided. If you push the office to the north, the staircase only remains in the south. Then it would be downstairs in the living room. That would be bad. You could try again with a horizontal arrangement... don’t know if that makes sense.
I think I already mentioned that you probably use the space better with a folding ladder at a hatch into the peak. However, your planner’s chicken ladder is already comparable.
I therefore emphasize here again that I consider it urgently necessary to replace the planner in order to save the project before the child falls into the well. The latest plans in post #78 make me reasonably doubt that counter-proposals (mainly from Katja) have ever been noticed by the planner. But there is nothing to say to deaf ears; you can save yourself that.
There should also be nothing less than agreement on the preliminary draft before the draft is developed.
A "preliminary draft" is, mind you, not a "draft that you still hope to improve," but an independent planning stage that, if omitted, will thoroughly revenge itself in and on the result.
So the following agreements were made:
- The upper floor layout should remain as in the original post, i.e., 2 children’s rooms on the right, office north, bedroom and bathroom on the left. And the office in the north only as an option due to heating/upsetting sunlight on the screen in the south. If there is a reasonable way to avoid that in the south (besides keeping the shutter closed all day), the office can also be in the south as in #39.
- The attic must offer storage possibility, at least access via a hatch, may also be used with a fixed staircase as leeway. It must then be thermally insulated.
- Two sketches should be made within a few days to reach agreement on the preliminary draft. Only then make a full draft again.
- The staircase should be planned with at least 16 steps with approx. 17/29 or max. 18/27, and all technology inside the thermal envelope.
- Then, based on the sketches, put together and develop this into a satisfactory preliminary draft in 1-2 appointments, and then draw the whole thing completely as a draft.
So, and for some magical reason, these things have not been implemented, that looks more like an internal communication problem to me (I had to wait again several weeks and only received 1 draft). We still have an appointment this week, and then we will make the time for a proper preliminary draft (also thanks to the brave help of and ). And if that still does not work satisfactorily, then I will probably consider a change. I actually also wanted to do an execution planning (there) to avoid the great experiences of other builders in the area (most only commission a planner up to the building application and then ask many general contractors with the approval plans, which of course resulted in day and night offers).
Question: Does only the general contractor know the roof thickness? Isn’t that determined during execution planning?